| Glorya Marie Kapp Mack |
Glorya Mack, PTA president
Saturday, December 17, 2:50 PM
Glorya Mack, 84, a former saleswoman, laboratory assistant and PTA
president, died Dec. 6 at Manor Care Nursing Home in Arlington County.
She had Alzheimer’s disease, said her daughter, Melinda Siobhan Mack.
Mrs. Mack, who lived in Alexandria, was twice the PTA president at Fairfax
County’s Quander Road Elementary School. She was a board member and
former president of the Belle Haven Women’s Club and a board member,
executive vice chairman and writer and editor of the newsletter of the Wolf
Trap Association.
Glorya Marie Kapp was born in Washington. She graduated from
Woodrow Wilson High School in 1945 and from George Washington
University in 1949, with a bachelor’s degree in Spanish literature.
At GWU, she was a member of the Kappa Kapp Gamma sorority and
was named homecoming queen and “Sweetheart of Sigma Chi,” a fraternity.
She later did graduate study in education at George Washington.
In the 1940s and 1950s, Mrs. Mack was a chemistry laboratory
assistant at the old National Bureau of Standards. Later, she was a model,
dance instructor and airline ticket agent.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Mrs. Mack was a receptionist and
condominium sales representative in Alexandria and Falls Church. She was
an Alexandria resident.
Her husband of 35 years, Thomas C. Mack, died in 1993.
Survivors include two children, Melinda Siobhan Mack of Bristol, W.Va.,
and T. Colin Mack of Beverly Hills, Calif.; and two grandchildren.
— Bart Barnes
Saturday, December 17, 2:50 PM
Glorya Mack, 84, a former saleswoman, laboratory assistant and PTA
president, died Dec. 6 at Manor Care Nursing Home in Arlington County.
She had Alzheimer’s disease, said her daughter, Melinda Siobhan Mack.
Mrs. Mack, who lived in Alexandria, was twice the PTA president at Fairfax
County’s Quander Road Elementary School. She was a board member and
former president of the Belle Haven Women’s Club and a board member,
executive vice chairman and writer and editor of the newsletter of the Wolf
Trap Association.
Glorya Marie Kapp was born in Washington. She graduated from
Woodrow Wilson High School in 1945 and from George Washington
University in 1949, with a bachelor’s degree in Spanish literature.
At GWU, she was a member of the Kappa Kapp Gamma sorority and
was named homecoming queen and “Sweetheart of Sigma Chi,” a fraternity.
She later did graduate study in education at George Washington.
In the 1940s and 1950s, Mrs. Mack was a chemistry laboratory
assistant at the old National Bureau of Standards. Later, she was a model,
dance instructor and airline ticket agent.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Mrs. Mack was a receptionist and
condominium sales representative in Alexandria and Falls Church. She was
an Alexandria resident.
Her husband of 35 years, Thomas C. Mack, died in 1993.
Survivors include two children, Melinda Siobhan Mack of Bristol, W.Va.,
and T. Colin Mack of Beverly Hills, Calif.; and two grandchildren.
— Bart Barnes